He established the Deccan College at Poona, as well as a college for instructing natives in civil engineering.

Mahadaji Sindia appeared at Poona with a large army to act against the banished Peishwa.

Scindia accepted the money, but still remained in the neighbourhood of Poona.

But there is still a hereditary incarnation of Ganeśa near Poona, which began in the seventeenth century.